Buddy Holly

The Washington Post Suggests that America Boot Texas From the Union

Obama's reelection last year prompted a lot of talk over whether Texas should once again secede from the Union. Except for a few die-hard secessionists, though, few considered it a serious proposal, more like an opportunity to make Texas jokes. So the debate just kind of fizzled out. But the Washin ... More >>

The 35 Must-See Bands at 35 Denton

So, this is definitely a top-five weekend in North Texas music annually. We're flush with bands this time of year, what with the mid-size tour Mecca four hours south and four days away. But much of what's going on in the Metroplex in the coming weeks owes at least as much of its awesome to our own d ... More >>

The Top Ten DFW Punk Albums

See also: The top 10 North Texas blues albums See also: The top 100 Texas songs The Telefones, Vibration Change Released in 1980, this album is more punk in spirit than execution. Songs like "Rocket Rocket" and "The Ballad of Jerry Godzilla" fuse punk rock's oomph with a new wave sensibility. Th ... More >>

Best Texas Songs of All Time: #19-1

Songs #100-80 Songs #79-60 Songs #59-40 Songs #39-20 The Spotify playlist for songs #19-1 19. Billy Preston, "Nothing From Nothing" Houston pianist Billy Preston got to hang around some decent talent (The Beatles, The Stones), but his solo material went in another direction altogether. This is ... More >>

From the Stoney Burns Archives, A Look at the Birth of Buddy Magazine

Courtesy George GimarcBuddy Holly as sketched by Stoney Burns​George Gimarc called the other day, said he'd just been rustling through stacks of paperwork left behind by Brent Stein -- better known as Stoney Burns, father of Dallas's underground press. Stein died in April, and in recent days those ... More >>

ACL Capsule Reviews: Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr., The Walkmen, Broken Social Scene, and Elbow

Elbow brought the Manchester rain on Sunday.​And just like that, the heat returned. The hot sun beat down on the wet grass, creating an inescapable humidity in Zilker Park on Sunday. As such, the people came prepared to sweat it out. The same guys hawking ponchos yesterday now had packets of ... More >>

For Your July 4 Listening Pleasure: Springsteen Turns Dallas Into a Promised Land in July '78

Via.​Shortly after we recalled Bruce Springsteen's rock-and-roll down an Oak Cliff bowling alley -- almost moments after -- news broke that Clarence Clemons had died from complications caused by a stroke suffered a few days earlier. At which point I cued up the '84 Reunion stop and remembered-when ... More >>

Over The Weekend: Toro y Moi, Cloud Nothings and Ishi at Club Dada

Toro y Moi, Cloud Nothings, IshiClub DadaMarch 19, 2011Better than: rushing halfway across downtown Austin to cram into an at-capacity venue, club or the ever-popular Fader Fort for a rushed 25-minute South-by-Southwest-style set. Toro y Moi​With more than 300 presale tickets sold before Saturd ... More >>

Over The Weekend: The Flatlanders at Sons of Hermann Hall

Better than: Seeing the Flatlanders at the Wyly or the Granada, where they've played their last two shows. The ballroom at the Sons of Hermann Hall is their natural element, as dusty and real as the colorful West Texas characters that populate the band's best songs.Will Van Overbeek​The silver-hai ... More >>

Last Night: Jason Bonham's Led Zeppelin Experience at The Music Hall at Fair Park

​Jason Bonham's Led Zeppelin ExperienceFair Park Music HallNovember 18, 2010Better than: I could have ever expected.Not being a fan of cover or tribute bands, I ventured down to Fair Park Music Hall with quite a bit of trepidation. Sure, Jason Bonham was the son of John Bonham, the (sadly deceased ... More >>

Over The Weekend: The Hood Internet at The Loft

The Hood Internet, Yeahdef, Red SeanThe LoftJune 25, 2010 Better Than: sitting on the wall like you were Poindexter. Mattie StaffordSee the rest of the night's pics in our slideshow.​Going to see Chicago's Hood Internet, I figured the crowd would be predominately college-age and looking for a par ... More >>

Girls' Pop Music Goals Are Hardly Modest

Last Night: Collin Herring at The Cavern

Oddities

Still more sad stuff, plus the good news that the Longhorn will host a show

Hard Rock Life

How I learned to love an old new genre

Sacramental Beer

Plus: Backhanded Apology

Odds & Ends

Club TV USA hits town, Crossroads Fest coming out on DVD andlessons from Mail Bag

Creep Thrills

The attraction of Thrillvania is horrifying

You, Spy

Why can't Americans make TV shows as good as Brit import MI-5?

OK Karaoke

XPO Gold! gives its vocalists a chance to shine

Ain't Enough

Terry Allen on everything, including baseball, passion and the art of epic lying

Weezer

Weezer (Geffen)

High Times

Once dismissed as novelty, G. Love & Special Sauce find a serious niche with Electric Mile

See By Be Seen

At the annual South by Southwest music festival, it's the singer, not the song

A mother of a father

Bo Diddley created rock and roll -- now, where's his check?

Waylon Jennings

Solex

Dwight Yoakam, Willie Nelson

Night & Day

June 3 - 9, 1999

Manifest destiny

The Dictators are not back. They never left.

Manifest destiny

The Dictators are not back. They never left.

Cosmic love song

A "new" Roky Erickson record might be as close as anyone will ever get to him

Out Here

Letters

Next step

Colin Boyd's no doormat

Going against typecasting

Don't call Carolyn Wonderland and the Imperial Monkeys a blues band

Give peace a chance

The sound of the urban night comes from a most unlikely place

Roadshows

And a search for the truth

On the West Coast, Jeff Liles shoots and scores

Ja, das is country punk

The old world discovers the Old 97's

Out Here

Who gives a Hootie?

Farewell to 1995, a year in music we'd rather forget

Out Here

Far from Gone

Dwight Yoakam's latest conjures up echoes of '60s AM radio

Out here

Dust and wind

Joe Ely sends a sad, beautiful Letter to Laredo

Reviews

Ghosts in the machine

When the vinyl jukebox dies, so will a little piece of the music it played

Roky's road

The father of psychedelia is not insane, just a little crazy